Eight years on from the formation of the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium, which set out with the hugely ambitious task of mapping the entire human body – around 37.2 trillion cells – scientists ...

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Microscope picture of human bone cells (IMAGE) Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) Caption A microscope picture of human bone cells (U2OS) showing the localization of ...

Model recapitulates key physiological features of native endosteal niches, and could aid in the study of blood formation in both healthy and diseased conditions.

Researchers recently developed a bone marrow model to study how the body generates cells. Interestingly, this model is the ...

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Our body's "blood factory" consists of specialized tissue made up of bone cells, blood vessels, nerves and other cell types.

What at first seemed like an artifact in the images turned out to be a new organelle that may be involved in sorting, recycling and discarding proteins within human cells. Ebrahim likened the ...